Management hazard models

• What is the hazard management cycle?

  The process in which governments and other organisations work together to protect people from the natural hazards that threten their communities
• What are the four stages of the hazard management cycle?

  Mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery
• What is the focus of mitigation?

  Identifying potential natural hazards and taking steps to reduce their impact, and reducing the loss of life and infrastructure by helping communities become less vulnerable
• What are the actions taken for mitigation?

  Land use zoning, and developing and enforcing building regulations
• What is the focus of preparation?

  Minimizing the loss of life and infrastructure, and preparing the response and recovery phases
• What are the actions taken for preparation?

  Developing preparation plans, developing early warning systems, creating evacuation routes, stockpiling aid supplies, and raising public awareness
• What is the focus of response?

  Coping with the natural disaster by saving lives, protecting infrastructure, reducing economic losses, and making the affected areas safe
• What are the actions taken for response?

  Sending rescue efforts, evacuating people where needed, restoring critical infrastructure, and ensuring critical services can continue to operate
• What is the focus of recovery?

  Focusing on people's immediate needs, overlapping with the response phase, and taking steps to reduce future vulnerability, overlapping with the mitigation phase
• What are the actions taken for recovery?

  Providing services, supplies, and transport in the short term recovery, and rebuilding homes and infrastructure in the long term recovery
• What is the Park model curve?

  A model that shows how a country might respond after a natural hazard
• How can the Park model curve be used?

  To directly compare how countries of different levels of development might recover from a hazard event, by looking at the impacts of the hazard